This week on the Disc Breaks show I’m stoked to be bringing you an exclusive showcase mix from one of the most anticipated albums from the scene newest stars – BSD. I also did an interview with the guys about them and the album – the full interview is below

BSD

BSD (BASS-STAR-DOS) began as a project in 1998, formed by two French lovers of electronic music, alternative trends and indie movement. Without resources, and virtually no experience producing dance music, we had to wait almost 10 years to realize the concept in which we wanted to make BSD.

During these 10 years we were flirting with Hip-Hop, Funk, New Wave, Nu Disco, Elektro, Breaks, etc … And much more, because during those years we review all that has been occurring in electronics since the late 70’s with the advent of disco music and 12” vinyl, to today in which digital files dominate the electronic scene.

Our goal when we introduced in the production of dance music was clear: Give the public what the public wants, working always in search of a musical identity, a style that characterizes us, but transmitting range of sounds at the same time.

Currently, with little more than a year showing the public our particular ideology, we have reaped success after success under iBreaks Records label, which bet on us at first, reaching up to the top of the global Breaks scene, finally confirming us as one of the most prolific producers of recent times. Proof of this is the “Breakthrough Producer 2010” award, which was bestowed to us in the last edition of Breakspoll Awards (2010).

Our first album, Malditos Bass-Star-Dos! (Which will be released next November 1st under our own label, Mental Machine Muzik), is the work of several months in which we have tried to capture our open minds and our obsession with attractive sounds. To present this project, we have created 10 new tracks, which will be accompanied by another 8 tunes published under iBreaks Records label, forming a compilation full of variety with a predominance of Breaks genre.

In this album you will find tracks clearly influenced by the purest Elektro-Breaks of the early decade (“EBM”, “Elektro-Life”); casual and fresh sounds characteristic of Tech-Funk (“Joe Jacks”, “Overestimate”, “Hard ‘n’ Bass”, etc.); Oldskool impressive percussions (“Total Cucumber”); as well as tracks inspired by Bassline and NuSkool Breaks predominant in the UK (“Everybody Scream”, “You Must Find Strength”).

In addition, we wanted to honor one of our sources of inspiration in this adventure in Breaks music, as in the case of “Party Groove”, a production subtitled as “Breaks Phenomenon” honoring the NuSkool Breaks classic “TSUNAMI ONE & BT : Hip Hop Phenomenon [Marine Parade] 1999.”

You will also find in “Malditos Bass-Star-Dos!” some of the recent hits of these French masked guys, like “Hypnotizin”, “You Must Find Strength”, “Compute”, “Get Hype On This”, “Funkdation”, …

http://www.myspace.com/bassstardos

http://www.youtube.com/BSDtele

http://www.soundcloud.com/bass-star-dos

http://fr-fr.facebook.com/bass.star.dos.pages

Exclusive Interview for the Disc Breaks show:

Llupa : It hasn’t even been 2 years since your Intoxicated Music EP hit the breakbeat world, but now you’re one of the big hitters in the scene with almost every release going top ten, if not number one. How has that trip been for you guys?

BSD : Well, when we decided to start this project we knew that to reach the top we...